Dear FSL Users and Experts,


We are thinking to order following configuration for CUDA implementation and I have some questions related to it.

First Processor

-Xeon E5-2630V4 2.2Ghz 20MB Turbo Boost (S26361-F5001-E220)

Second Processor

                -2ND XEON E5-2630V4 (S26361-F5002-E230)

RAM

-16 x 16 GB = 256GB RAM

HDD SATA III

                 -2TB x 2 = 4TB

First Graphics Card

                  -NVIDIA QUADRO M5000 8GB ( S26361-F2222-E593 )

Second Graphics Card

                 -NVIDIA QUADRO M5000 8GB (S26361-F2222-E990)




1) Do you think above mentioned CPUs  and GPUs would be able to run CUDA and BEDPOSTX ? Is it appropriate or should we look for some other configuration? Please suggest a configuration if you disagree with our configuration.

2) Do you think it is better to have 2 CPUs for and 2 GPUs for quickers image pre-processing? or there is as such no difference in the results when compared to ony one CPU and one GPU

3) Which CentoOS version and CUDA version would you suggest to install on the above configuration?

4) Can we run CUDA implementation on UbuntuOS?

I really appreciate your time and efforts for making our lab more faster and more powerful.

Many Thanks
Best, Wu